India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia
Published on India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia (http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in)

Home > News > Folk belief helps in gibbon preservation > Folk belief helps in gibbon preservation

Folk belief helps in gibbon preservation [1]

BAREKURI (TINSUKIA) - Folk beliefs and preservation of oral tradition have made it possible for the endangered ape species, the hoolock gibbon to survive amidst human habitation. There are 29 hoolock gibbons

Publication Date: 
12/10/2009
Assam Tribune (Guwahati) [2]
Tags:
Endangered Species [3], Assam [4], Tinsukia (D) [5]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

Technology Partners: MimirTech


India Environment Portal by Centre for Science and Environment is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.


Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/folk-belief-helps-gibbon-preservation

Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/folk-belief-helps-gibbon-preservation
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/assam-tribune-guwahati
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/endangered-species
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/assam
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tinsukia-d